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Thirteen-year-old Ben Tracey is looking forward to spending the summer in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father has been hired to examine the valuable mineral Coltan that's being mined there. They soon realise that the people living in the village near the mine are frightened and it doesn't take long for Ben and his father to discover why: behind the door of every hut there is at least one person dying or seriously ill, and no one seems to be doing anything to help.

Former SAS Captain Will Jackson is a man with nothing to lose. A veteran of the most dangerous missions the Regiment could throw at him, his life was torn apart the day a terrorist attack killed his family. Now he leads a life of grief-stricken obscurity, the world of warfare nothing but a distant memory. People higher up the chain of command have other plans, however.

Having walked into the middle of the real reason the Hen Harriers are being shot down, Ben and Annie are captured as intruders and taken to a secure unit on a deserted area of the camp. These birds are just helpless victims in a much bigger operation - they attract too many visitors to the area and there's a top-secret piece of warfare technology being developed that needs to be kept quiet. If this weapon gets into the wrong hands it could have catastrophic worldwide effects.

It is 2003. Invalided out of the SAS, Chet Freeman makes his living in high-end security, on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, a peace campaigner, eavesdropping on a meeting the Group is holding with the British prime minister. The Group's interests include arms manufacture, and what Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the prime minister to take his country into an illegal war. Could this possibly be true?

The guys in the Regiment know they face their fiercest enemies when they fight the Taliban. No-one is tougher, more deadly - or more cunning. And if they enter the Taliban's kill zone, they know just what to expect... When three deadly Stinger missiles go missing in Helmand Province, the...

The first in an exciting new series for children from ex-SAS officer and best-selling adult author Chris Ryan. Five kids: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex and Amber, are marooned on a desert island where they must face the ultimate test: survival! Killer komodo dragons, sharks, and modern day pirates are amongst the dangers they face. Can the five bond as a team, and stay alive? New to audio, this gripping story is read by Adrian Lester, best-known for his role in Spooks on TV.

The team is in action: Alex, Li, Paulo, Hex, and Amber. An elite team sent to South America to take part in a covert SAS operation to catch an evil drugs rat. They begin with the street kids but their adventure takes them high into the isolated mountains. Will their combined skills be enough to lead to a successful operation? The second adventure in the Alpha Force series. New to audio, this gripping story is read by Adrian Lester, best known for his role in Spooks on TV.

Inget val är en gastkramande thriller om en man som är beredd att göra vad som helst för sin familj, sina vänner och sitt fosterland. Det är andra delen i serien om militären Geordie Sharp. Författaren Chris Ryan är själv före detta militär och tidigare medlem i det brittiska specialförbandet SAS. När Geordie Sharp, sergeant i den brittiska kommandostyrkan SAS, återvänder hem från ett uppdrag i Sydamerika får han ett chockande besked: hans sambo och lille son har blivit kidnappade!

Stand by, stand by är en nervkittlande politisk thriller av en mästare inom genren och första delen i serien om militären Geordie Sharp. Chris Ryan är själv före detta militär och tidigare medlem i SAS. Geordie Sharp har länge varit sergeant i det brittiska specialförbandet SAS. Efter att ha skadats under Gulfkriget tvingas han återvända till hemlandet, men får svårt att finna sig till ro där. Han ansluter sig till de brittiska trupperna i Nordirland, något som slutar med katastrof då en i hans familj blir mördad.

Brittiska SAS, Special Air Service, är ett av världens mest framgångsrika specialförband. Under Gulfkriget får en av dess trupper uppdraget att förstöra irakiska robotmissiler, men misslyckas och blir själva attackerade. Åtta soldater tvingas fly för sina liv. Endast en av dem, Chris Ryan, lyckas ta sig i säkerhet genom att vandra 180 mil genom en stekhet öken. Det här är hans berättelse. En sann historia om mod, styrka och uthållighet, men framförallt om en mans ihärdiga vägran att ge upp.

Darius, son of an escaped Iranian scientist, is a pupil at an exclusive Swiss school, but his father's former bosses want him back and have no regard for the boy's life or his freedom. The Special Forces Cadets are sent to protect Darius. When the assassins launch a deadly attack, their only escape is into the mountains. Pursued by their enemies, can the cadets triumph and survive the deadly natural hazards of the alpine winter?

The Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean. Intelligence has been received that Argentina is plotting to invade, but is it reliable? The Special Forces Cadets are sent in to investigate, disguised as nature watchers, but when they split up to conduct essential research, two of them are captured and imprisoned. Their lives are in grave danger, but with the main operation at a crucial stage, the others are under orders to leave their friends to their fate.

The ghettos of Brazil are crawling with street kids. Their life expectancy is short, not least because the Brazilian authorities allow paramilitaries to shoot them like rats. But it's with the street kids of Rio de Janeiro that the cadets must become embedded. Some of these kids have been recruited by the cartels. The cartels are causing untold misery, both in Brazil and on the streets of the UK. The cadets must befriend the cartel kids in the hope that they will lead them into the heart of the drug lords' empire.

Child slavery is rife. Hundreds of young people are being forced into lives of slavery by an international trafficking ring based in the jungles of central Africa. The cadets are tasked to present themselves as bait for the traffickers. Some of them head to Africa. Some stay in the UK. They are to gather hard intel which the authorities can use to nail the perpetrators of this twisted business.

A British agent investigating the rogue state's nuclear capabilities has gone missing. The secretive nature of life in Pyongyang means that unfamiliar adults would attract suspicion and fall under immediate surveillance. So the cadets form part of a young pioneers tour to the North Korean capital. Once there, they must use their skills and training to find out more about the missing agent. In the course of their investigations, they forget the one rule every undercover operator must obey: trust nobody.

A top-secret government programme needs a crack team of undercover military operators. They must have awesome levels of determination, endurance and fitness. They must be able to think on their feet. The recruits undergo the most rigorous and testing selection process the modern military can devise. And in order to operate in circumstances where adult forces would be compromised, the recruits must be under 16. Only a few are tough enough and smart enough to make it.

Den britiske efterretningstjeneste beder Matt Browning om at eliminere en fabrik i Østeuropa, der ulovligt fremstiller billig kopimedicin og bliver styret af en flok gangstere. Arbejdsgiveren er en multinational medicinalvirksomhed som viser sig at have solgt et middel, som skal fremme soldaters frygtløshed før et angreb. Men midlet har den bivirkning, at soldaterne efter 4 år bliver ramt af et morderisk vanvid og dræber uskyldige, inden de begår selvmord. Og nu er Styrke Syv i gang med at aflive alle de soldater, som har indtaget dette middel.

Sent om aftenen den 24. januar 1991 befinder de otte engelske elitesoldater sig langt inde på irakisk territorium. Deres opgave er at sabotere irakernes kommunikationslinjer og finde og destruere deres mobile Scud-missilramper. Det var tanken om sin familie, der holdt den engelske SAS-soldat Chris Ryan i live, da han pludselig måtte klare sig på egen hånd i den irakiske ørken - fjendens territorium - under Golfkrigen.

Nick Scott er tidligere SAS-soldat. Han var med i den første golfkrig, men blev fanget og tortureret og er nu en nedbrudt mand. Sarahs kæreste, Jed Bradley, er en af SAS's sejeste unge agenter. Fanget i en global magtkamp må Nick og Jed kæmpe sig vej gennem det krigshærgede Irak, mens Saddam Husseins regime kollapser omkring dem, i et desperat kapløb for at finde den kvinde, de begge elsker, og for at afsløre hemmeligheden om Det Ultimative Våben.

Matt Browning er lige trådt ud af SAS og har store økonomiske problemer. Men løsningen på hans finansielle problemer kommer, da han får tilbudt opgaven om at samle et team af tidligere SAS-soldater, som skal opsnappe en al-Qaeda transport af diamanter og guld på vej over middelhavet. Sammenholdet blandt deltagerne bliver sat på prøve fra starten, da en af dem bliver udsat for et attentat. Kuppet bliver gennemført, men kort efter begynder drabene. To af deltagerne bliver udryddet - den ene med hele sin familie. Og Matt ved, at han er den næste på listen ...